Power plant



R. WINTZER POWER PLANT June 12, 1928.

Filed Nov. 17. 1921 I N VEN TOR.

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Patented June 12, 1928.

PAT N OF E- nnnoLF wm'rznn, on MI WAUKEE, Wisconsin, Assielvon To NORDBERG MANU FAGTURING CO P NY, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION or wIs- CONSIN.

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Application filed November 17,1921. Serial No. 515,826.

This invention relates to power plants and the object of the invention 15 to improve the construction and operation of power plants in the manner to be hereinafter described.

Referring to thej'd'rawings which accompany this specification and. form apart hereof, which drawings 'illustrate an BIDbOCllI- ment of this invention, the figure of the drawings is a vertical, longitudinalsection of a power plant, allarts beingomitted, for, the sake of simplicity of illustration and terseness of description, which are not necessary 'to a complete understanding of this invention.

Referring to thedrawings,; the reference numerall designates a steam boiler associated with the combustion chamber 2and the flue-space 3 of the furnace for heating the same. A steam-pipe 4, provided witha throttle-valve 5, serves to c'onduc't 'steam to the two ends of a cylinder 6, which is illustrated asof the terminal-exhaust, or uniflow, type, The reference. numerals7 and 8 des ignate thesteam' admission valves WlllCll are opened and closed in proper sequence by any suitable mechanism, not shown; preferably of a governing type,'and the steam exhausts through exhaust-ports=9 into a chambe'r 10 when the iston 11 uncovers the exhaustports 9 during its reciprocations, in the wellknown manner. For the greatest efficiency,

the chamber 10 communicates with a condenser, not shown. 2 I

Speaking generally, there are two essential factors in a power plant- 'which are interrelated, one being the thermal" efficiency of the plant and the other'being continuity of thermal efficiency, and the ob]ect of thls inventionis to attain the utmost thermalefficiency of a power plant while at the same a time attaining the utmost continuity of the thermal efliciency of a power plant.

.Thevpis'ton 1 1 isa floating piston and does not bear against the cylinder-wall, steam being prevented from passing the piston by oneor more piston rings 12 located near each end of the piston. The piston 11 is supported by a piston rod 13Yyvhich floats'through the cylinder-heads 14 and 15am the followers 6 and 1 7, steam tight joints being made any suitablepacking-rings 18 and 19,

preferably made frommetal andfof the type which. has a spring, or yieldablagrip upon sures creating friction are only the spring pressures holding the piston-rings against the wall of the cylinder and the spring pressures holding thepacking-rings against the" piston-rod. The piston-rod 13 is firmly supported upon slides 20 and 21in any'suita-ble mannernas,,for example, by a cross-head 22 ,and a slidable support, or; tail cross-head,

23. 'Ani upper slide 24 retains the' crosshead; 22 in proper position whenthe engine is reversed; Theslides 20, 21 and 24. are I always accessible and theirproper lubrication can beattended to without stopping the engine. By the term .engine? the prime mover of the power plant is intended, the prime mover beingillustrated der .6 and associated mechanism.

' The steam-chests 25 and 26 are not incor} porated with the cylinder-heads butyare placed at the ends. of, the cylinder and the steam-chests and the cylinder may be steam jacketed or lagged with heat insulating material in any suitable manner, not shown.

.By not incorporating the steam-chests with as the cylin- 1 the cylinder-heads, the cylinderrheads may bemade.much smaller in thickness and may be removed and replacedwithout disturbing any: main steam-line. The piston-rod 13 must be made large enough infdiameter to support'the weight of the piston 11 without-appreciable or detrimental sag and its diameter is a. factor olfits length between its supports, viz,the cross-head 22 and the slidable support or tail cross-head 23.. As it is necessary to remove the piston from the cylinder occasionally to replace piston-rings, for example, it is" desirable not to have to dismantle the'engine more than is absolute ly necessary for the purpose and the arrangement is such that the cylindenheads can be loosened from the cylinder and-the piston loosened from the piston r'od and a cylin 2. In a power plant, in combination, a main fluid pressure cylinder having its cylinder heads formed with chambers, a main piston operating in said main cylinder, valve cointrolled fluid pressure supply means for supplying fluid pressure to the main cylinder for actuating the piston therein, means separate from ent of the valve controlled fluid pressure supply means for supplying heating fluid under pressure to the chambers of the cylinder heads, an. auxiliary engine including an auxiliary cylinder separate and distinct from the main cylinder, an auxiliary piston reciprocable in the auxiliary cylinder, a valve chest associated with the auxiliary cylinder, a slide valve operating in said chest to regulate the supply and exhaust of fluid under pressure from the valve chest to the opposite sides of the piston in the auxiliary cylinder, a separator having a steam space,

pipes afi'ording open communication be tween the chambers and the steam space of the separator and a pipe affording open communication between the steam space of heads,

and independ-' the separator and the valve chest of the aux iliary engine. i

3. The combination with a uni-flow type of steam engine having jacketed cylinder of means connected withsaid jackets for supplying heating fluid thereto distinct from the working steam of the engine, and

a prime mover independent of said engine operated by said fluid whereby, as an incident ofsuch operatiomthere will be a positive circulation of said heating fluid through said jackets. a

4. In combination with a uni-fiowisteam engine having jacketed cylinder heads, a source of steam common to both said engine and its jackets, a heater interposed between the jackets and said source for supplying super-heated steam to the former, and a prime mover independent of said engine operated by ;the steam issuing from said jackets.

In witness whereof I hereto afltix my signature. a

'RUDOLF WINTZER. 

